Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-15 | Page 7 | Bureau Chief is Optimistic

BUREAU CHIEF IS optimistic stat st cian cla ms un ted states never was so prosperous 0 P austin chief of the bureau of statistics who declares that never in the history of the country was corn com mercial industrial and agricultural prosperity greater than it Is at pres ent has lived in washington twenty years chiefly as a newspaper correspondent spon dent but latterly as a government official mr austin was formerly a cincinnati journalist for almost a score of years he has been a careful student of statistics and he was ap pointed to his present post in 1898 in A 0 f 7 zar recognition of the good work he had done as a statistician he has greatly enlarged the department